TWEETS RECENTES

If Inventory Usage application shows no reservations when you click on Select Reserved Items button, please try the following: Go to Organizations application > bring up the Organization > Inventory Options > Inventory Defaults and check if the option "Automatically create usage documents for new reservations?" is selected. - If that option is selected, this is working as expected:... [More]

Recently a client contact presented an issue regarding running above report which was timing out (with stuck threads listed in logs) as it was very large. This was later revealed to be due to never running the report in all the years the client has had Maximo installed. The business partner working on behalf of the client, devised a method to avoid time out's by using a where clause and also to run the report in chunks rather than the whole period.... [More]

Maximo SysAdm Times Welcome to the Sysadm Times !!!!!! Introduction: There is a drop down menu "All Records" on the side navigation toolbar in Maximo and sometimes users ending up clicking on this option which could impact performance seriously if there are millions of records to be returned. 'All Records' query option is hardcoded in the menu.java to always be displayed. You are unable to disable it without a framework code change . Making a code change to achieve this would be an unsupported customization of platform... [More]

Hello Everyone, I'm happy to announce that on October 27th 2016, IBM released Maximo Spatial Asset Management feature pack 7.6.0.1! Within this new feature pack, comes a lot of new features! Some of these features include: 1) Display Maximo Linear Asset Manager layers on a map - You can configure layers to display linear features on a map when you select a Spatial Map as a provider 2) Select Maximo records on a map - You can associate records with a service request or work order by selecting... [More]

IBM Maximo and Control Desk products have classifications in order to categorize records such as items, assets, locations, work orders, tickets etc. Classifications are not only useful for easily identifying, restricting or filtering records, they also bring in specifications functionality. Specification attributes are extra fields defined for a classification used with one or more Maximo objects. In spite of adding new fields to main database tables, related specification records are added to the specification tables only for the classified... [More]

It was a dark and stormy night. Opps! Wrong story! Let’s try again. There is a large manufacturing organization, who produces and assembles a wide range of plastic injection-molded parts in its eight different facilities located around the world. Continued slips in production schedules, and perceived low asset utilization, has caused the organization’s management team to call for investigations in plant performance. A task team is quickly assembled to evaluate and identify potential contributors to... [More]

MAXIMO IoT Newsletter: October Edition - Your Monthly updates - All in one place The IoT newsletter will be published monthly, this will be the perfect way to share with you our high value content, recent updates and any information you might have missed. The main objective of this Newsletter is to give you a monthly peek with what's happening in the world of Maximo, value added contents such as videos, blogs, IFIX releases etc. So please have a read and make sure you bookmark this link for ongoing... [More]

YES! We’re busting out with more EXCITING NEWS for YOU! Maximo 7.6.0.6 has been released on October 21, 2016 and WHEW! It is FABULOUS! Building on the new Maximo-x Work Centers introduced in Maximo 7..6.0.5 , Maximo 7.6.0.6 capitalizes on our continuous delivery model to provide even more features in…..the new Maximo-x UI! YES! The new Maximo-x UI utilizes new technology to enable the display of content seamlessly on desktop, laptop, table and smart phone devices! ... [More]

By now, we should be familiar with the My Recent Applications function at Maximo 7.6 This stores a list of the previous 8 (by default) applications which the logged-in user has visited. This information persists after we log off and also if we restart the browser. In this blog entry I want to explore the underlying implementation. How does it Work? At first I thought it might be a mechanism that uses cookies and maybe persisted in the database, but I was wrong. The answer is something which came as a surprise to me: Local Browser Storage. I had... [More]

The message "BMXAA2598E - A purchase order is required for approval." is related to the check-box "Company Default for PO Required for Outside Labor?" (MAXVAR LR_PO_OUTLAB_RQRD) which is hidden by default in Organizations application > Purchase Options > PO Labor Options. The Contract enhancements in Maximo 6 replaced the old Outside Labor Reporting functionality that used Purchase Orders. Usually when we have such functionality change we leave the old fields in the Maximo database just to keep the... [More]

In System Properties application, when the property Global Value is greyed out (read-only) check if the File Override option is selected. - If so, it indicates that the property is being read from the maximo.properties file. If you would like to manage the property from the UI, please remove it from the maximo.properties file, rebuild and redeploy the ear file. - If not, please contact IBM Maximo Support and open a PMR regarding to the problem.

I was working through writing up some documentation on the detailed configuration of Push notifications for Maximo Anywhere 7.6.1 and I ran it to an issue where the previous senderID and API key I had generated for our release of Push Notifications for the Maximo Anywhere 7.6 ISM was no longer working. My notifications were going outbound to MobileFirst without issue, however when attempting to connect to Google Cloud Messaging I was receiving the following error in the MobileFirst logs. [project MaximoAnywhere] 00000253... [More]

One of my recurring issues has been notifying uses of receipts in an email, without a separate email for each receipt record. To that end, I’ve created a process that uses an escalation to fire a custom action to do this. This is built on Maximo 7.5.0.10 on SQL Server. Note: The way this is built, it only works for POs where all lines are requested by the same user. You’re smart, I’m sure you can figure out options if you need to. Create a persistent attribute PO.LASTRECDATE... [More]